the concrete steps they ve been talking to keep things from turning violent today. i wonder what your sense of this change in tone is? is this long lasting, deep or superficial and for a couple of days to save face for the united states? we should have no illusion that the change of government from mubarak to morsi constitutes a radical change in foreign policy approach by the egyptian government. it s going to have reverberations for the united states throughout the region. the bottom line is that morsi needs united states and multilateral financial help. that s the best leverage that we have against him and the worst inclinations to ride the crest of this islamic awakening, let alone the arab awakening in the region. they cannot have it both ways. mr. morsi is basically a new president who needs to be i m going to say this diplomatically, he needs to be educated about his responsibilities not only about as president to his own people,
governor, if we could turn to romney s political response, which i think you could classify as poor as the very best, ari berman a couple months ago pointed out over 70% of romney s 40 foreign policy advisers worked for president bush, and i have to think they re none too pleased with the way history judged their foreign policy approach under bush. do you think their strategic vision has been clouded by upset over the way that the public has judged their foreign policy approach? sure. i think there s no question about that. governor romney can take advice, but he has to make the decision himself. most times as governor i followed the advice of my advisers and chief of staff. sometimes i thought my response of different and better and i stuck with it. the governor has to realize the american people are looking for
why mitt romney thinks playing to the far neoconnist wing o the party gets him at lo of votes. only then he s trying to be the anti-obama. if obama in s in favor of bringing troops home from iraq, he s against it. if he s that seems to be the basis of his foreign policy which he won t outline in details. the president was really tough on romney s foreign policy approach. listen to this. i pledged to end the war in iraq honorably. that s what we ve done. some said that bringing our troops home last year was a mistake. they would have kept tens of thousands of our forces in iraq indefinitely without a clear mission. well, when your commander in chief, you owe the troops a plan. you owe the country a plan.
college and the need to head off a spike in student loan interest rates. we ll take the president as soon as he steps up to the mike. we are watching an animal preserve in ohio. two leopards, two monkeys and a bear will be returned to the widow of the man who turned his pets loose before taking his own life. sanford, florida has a new police chief. we re watching the live pictures from there. richard meyers is being introduced at a news conference, all three stories happening right now, we have them covered we ll bring you the latest as they happen. we re also hearing from the escort who exposed a big fat secret at the secret service. dania gives an interview about her infamously ly iason. my friends nor i we didn t know they were agents, you know, obama s agents for, you know, and then we left and we went to this place to buy condoms. and then we went to the hotel. who went? well, my friend, well, wait, she is not a friend, acquaintance, and the agent who was with me a
captions by vitac www.vitac.com the secret service prostitution scandal that exploded in colombia may be just the tip of the iceberg. allegations have now surfaced of similar misconduct involving heavy drinking, a strip club, escorts on a previous presidential trip, this one to el salvador. reporter chris holmsby broke the story and he joins me now. chris, what happened in el salvador just prior to president obama s trip there in march of last year? reporter: we just flew to el salvador this last weekend to try to verify some of the information that we actually received some time ago. we talked to a government subcontractor who worked directly with president obama s advanced security team within the secret service and with military attaches, experts and k-9, bomb-sniffing snipers and this particular sub-contractor tells us that he went with what they call a van load of secret service agents to a local strip club and there he says he witnessed heavy drinking most of th